World. Ahead on cnn newsroom, crisis averted. Biden set to sign off on a deal to raise the federal borrowing limit. Heartbreak in india. Search efforts now underway after one of the deadliest Train Crashes in the countrys history. Plus, new video shows the moments before an iowa Apartment Building came crashing down. Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. The Debt Limit Crisis in washington is over for now, and perhaps no one is more relieved than u. S. President joe biden. In his words, crisis averted. The stakes were enormous, the threat of failure hung over the country for weeks as the white house and Republican Leaders seemed locked in stalemate. But the hard work finally paid off late thursday when the u. S. Senate voted to suspend the debt ceiling and avoid catastrophic default. In his First Oval Office address on friday night, the president summed up his view of the make or break moment in u. S. History. Passing this Budget Agreement was critical. The stakes could not have
pomp and power, the president of the united states abroad for a big nato summit but a conversation on if and how quickly to bring ukraine inside the alliance threatens to fracture unity across europe. trouble since he walked in. ron desantis falls back on blaming a familiar culprit to explain why his campaign stumbled off the blocks, the media. it might be the ugliest headline of the biden presidency a conversation about the biden family and the cruelty of counting to six versus seven. i m dana bash. behind the head looilines and e politics. up first, geopolitics, the president tries to hold the nato family together. joe biden wheels up right now to lithuania and will land to a new uncertainty about ukraine s future and if it s with nato and conp front rare public fractures among allows over a decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine s front line. the president took pains to project everything is okay in a stop to number 10 downing street with the british prime m
t the lead starts right now. ukraine is pushing, pushing, pushing. cnn is live as the 31 nations meet. and why special counsel is accusing donald trump s right-hand man of trying to delay the prosecution of him. and the once in a thousand year rainfall behind devastating flooding in parts of america ears noamerica s northeast, trapping drivers in cars and on roads and forcing some to swim to safety. we start today with our word lead. the president in lithuania with one goal on his list unity. ukraine will be the main focus of the two-day meeting but for a group that has been, frankly, stunningly united, there are public fractures in the alliance starting to emerge, ones president biden will have to fix over the next few days, mainly overs decision to send cluster bombs to the front line, one that has been banned by most of the allies who will be sitting around president biden at that table in lithuania. they will have to decide when and how they will let ukraine join
media headwind is strong for some. it s lonely and odds are, you won t win it. any group with less than 50 members, is hard to join. most of us don t have the desire to run for president, and even if we did have the desire, we still wouldn t. i offer those caveats, there is a sdfrns in critiquing and evaluating. evaluating how someone performs as a candidate. that is a fair critique, but we should be mindful how difficult running for the highest office is, especially in a challenging time for our country and in a very toxic political environment. governor ron desantis started his campaign with momentum, with energy, with excitement and campaigning numbers have been impressive, yet he s not taken off like some believed he would. will he regain his footing, will someone else surplant him as the challenger. or president trump on glide path to renomination. here with the latest on the state of the primary is politico reporter olivia beavers. olivia, thank you for joining us tonig
right now in beijing facing a tough challenge during her two days of meetings with chinese officials. she s there of course to try to stabilize a tense relationship strained even further just this week when china retaliated against the u.s. anna coren is live for us. what is yellen saying so far? reporter: as you say she is currently meeting with the chinese premier leader in the great hall of the people. she was with him at the paris finance summit last month where she said the world expects china and us to work together. you may have seen both of them smiling at each other. the premier spoke first just a few moments ago and said that there was a rainbow when yellen landed yesterday. and it was symbolic of the u.s./china relationship. so who knows, perhaps there is hope on the horizon. but the u.s. treasury secretary said that the biden administration seeks healthy economic competition that is not winner take all but can benefit both countries. she says the u.s. will in ce